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P. H. GONANT.

RATTAN ARTICLE.

Patented Nov. 22,1887.

Fig Z- WWA/E555 5- f UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRED H. CONANT, OF GARDNER, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO HEYWOOD BROTHERS St CO., OF SAME PLACE.

RATTAN ARTICLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 373.583, dated November 22, 1887.

Application tiled July l1, 15874 Serial No. 243,911. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern.:

Be it known that I, FRED H. CONANT, of Gardner, in the county of Worcester and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in the Art of Making Rattan Articles and the Like, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in Which- Figure 'l is a portion ofthe back of a chair embodying my invention, and Fig. 2 is a detail. Fig. 3 shows a portion of a chair-back embodying my invention wound in a different way from the back shown in Fig. l.

Hitherto in rattan manufactures-chairs, cribs, lounges, baby-carriages, and the likeparallel strands have been stayed by scroll or Fitch work, and the consequence has been that the article in which the parallel strands have been thus stayed has lacked the rigidity and strength required to make the article durable and to keep it in shape; and my invention consists in staying the parallel strands by means of blocks tted snugly between and secured to the strands, the blocks being wound with strands.

In'thedrawings, which show my invention embodied in a chair-back, Ais the frame, and

a a cross-piece, to which the parallel strands b are attached in a well-known way.

In order to stay the parallel strands and to 3o unite them with the desired rigidity and strength, I place blocks b between the strands and secure the blocks in place and to the strands by brads or the like. (See Fig. 2.) Vhen the blocks and strands are thus united, 35 the blocks are hidden from sight by other strands Wound about them, as will be readily understood by all skilled in the art.

It is obvious that the blocks b may be of any shape, so long as they have two sides par 4o allel, and that they may be arranged in any desired relation to each other which will stay the strands.

The herein-described improvement in rat- 45 tan furniture, consisting in the combination of the parallel strands b and blocks b', securely tted between the strands b and Wound with other strands, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

FRED H. CONANT.

Witnesses:

THATCHER B. DUNN, JULIAN l?. DUNN. 

